Paul Jenkins Sidekick Volume 1

by Paul Jenkins, Chris Moreno

This is the story of the not-so-glamorous life of Eddie Edison - also known as Superior Boy! Eddie works two jobs: delivering pizza to pay the bills and being a sidekick to the most powerful superhero on earth - to pay the bills. What's a guy to do? Discover the answer to this burning question, and get a healthy dose of evil villains, busty women, sex-fiends and more F-bombs than you can shake a stick at! Brilliant!

Genres: Comics, Graphic Novels

128 pages, Paperback

Published July 31, 2007

About the author

Paul Jenkins is a British comic book writer. He has had much success crossing over into the American comic book market. Primarily working for Marvel Comics, he has had a big part shaping the characters of the company over the past decade.

Reviews

[Max Z · Rating 3 out of 5]

I hold Paul Jenkins in high regard from his Hellblazer run and was curious to see what he did 10 years later. Turns out, Sidekick is nothing like his occult horror work, it's a cheerful satire on the superheroes genre. In this world all of the superheroes are morons and the protagonist is forced to work for four of them (though it was mainly his idea to get more money). Tone-wise I'd compare it to early Chew books and Chris Moreno's art adds a lot to that feeling.

[Kay ☾ · Rating 1 out of 5]

*READ ISSUE #1 ONLY*

I got the 1st issue for 50 cents in a bargain bin. Every character is unlikeable. I will be using this issue as a makeshift dust pan as I clean my room.

[John · Rating 2 out of 5]

I used to hold Paul Jenkins in high-regard for Inhumans, The Sentry, Mythos, Revelations, Hellblazer, etc. And then I read X-Men Origins and Wolverine: The End.

This is more of the latter.

[Stewart Tame · Rating 3 out of 5]

Cute. Wasn't quite as laugh out loud funny as I was expecting. Unfortunately, the main character is a tad unlikable. I was kind of rooting for him because that's sort of the point of the story but it was a halfhearted effort. At first, I found the lack of sympathetic female characters kind of annoying. But then I realized, all the characters are kind of annoying. Everyone's pretty much a caricature. I get the funny and all, but, at this length, you really want a least a hint of three-dimensionality. Everyone's a cartoon because that's what makes the jokes work, but, by the end, I was sick of the lot of them. This probably would have been more fun at shorter length.

[Lily Eve · Rating 4 out of 5]

Fun new comic. I'm glad I got it.

[Sean · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book kind of ran too long on one joke. I made me sad.